Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo

Acting

Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo

Born — Died

1910-11-02 — 1978-12-13

Place of birth

La Habana, Cuba

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo (November 2, 1910 – December 13, 1978) was a Cuban character actor best remembered for his numerous roles as eccentric businessmen. Married to actress Lupita Pallás, he was the father of famous comedian Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo.

Known for

Drop the Curtain poster
7.6

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

Drop the Curtain

1955

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

El analfabeto

1961

School for Tramps poster
8.0

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

School for Tramps

1955

The Innocent poster
7.1

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.

The Innocent

1956

El secreto de mi mujer poster
5.6

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.

El secreto de mi mujer

1955

Estoy casado, ja, ja poster
4.8

Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.

Estoy casado, ja, ja

1962

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 27 titles

El analfabeto poster
7.8

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

El analfabeto

1961

Estoy casado, ja, ja poster
4.8

Honeymooner has trouble adapting to the idea of consummating her marriage.

Estoy casado, ja, ja

1962

On the dead the crowns poster
6.0

A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.

On the dead the crowns

1961

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Los secretos del sexo débil

1962

Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb poster
5.4

Joselito lives with his grandmother in a fishing village. His father went to America long ago to make a fortune. One day, the boy decides to travel there to meet him. He takes courage and embarks on a fragile boat and miraculously is saved at sea by a vessel that leads him to Mexico where he meets Tom Thumb, a little newsboy who lives many adventures and helps him in the search.

Adventures of Joselito and Tom Thumb

1960

House of Terror poster
6.1

Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. These haven't worked so far, and the bodies have been waxened and placed on display in the museum to cover his crimes. His big chance seems to come, however, when he learns that the mummified body of a modern man has been found in an Egyptian sarcophagus. The professor and his two henchmen steal the body and take it back to his lab - where the experiment flops again.

House of Terror

1960

Dos gallos en palenque poster
6.0

Venezuelan guy and Mexican rancher get competitive toward each other -- mostly over "the girl".

Dos gallos en palenque

1960

No artwork available
4.2

A whore house is transformed into a decent household by a respectable man.

La casa de las muchachas

1969

Un Latin lover en Acapulco poster
6.3

Roberto is tired of his life as an office worker in Mexico City, so he moves to Acapulco to try his luck as a "Latin lover".

Un Latin lover en Acapulco

1967

No artwork available
6.0

In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.

Una estrella y dos estrellados

1960

Conqueror of the Moon poster
6.5

Called to the home of a scientist to deal with a simple electrical problem, bumbling electrician Bartolo finds himself aboard a rocket headed for the moon!

Conqueror of the Moon

1960

Veinticuatro horas de vida poster
5.8

Two cabdrivers accidentally get caught up in criminal/gang activity.

Veinticuatro horas de vida

1969

Báñame mi amor poster
6.0

A 1968 film.

Báñame mi amor

1968

Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s) poster
6.0

Young woman and her godfather make up a story about her past in order to trick a suitor into marrying her. Then she becomes a musical comedy star and Mexican Revolution.

Los amores de Marieta (los fabulosos 20s)

1964

Vacaciones en Acapulco poster
5.8

A busfull of tourists arrives in Acapulco; each passenger has his/her little chunk of drama or comedy.

Vacaciones en Acapulco

1961

No artwork available
6.0

Seemingly at random, a hobo dude attaches himself to an upper-middle-class family and starts influencing them for the better in their day-to-day activities

Que hombre tan sin embargo

1967

Esta noche si poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Esta noche si

1968

No artwork available
5.4

A musical comedy about a group of pretty girls who meet in Mexico and decide to break into showbiz and make a pact and promise not to get involved with men. But they all are in love with different guys and that complicates things.

Póker de reinas

1960

Escuela para solteras poster
8.0

All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.

Escuela para solteras

1965

La cigüeña distraída poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

La cigüeña distraída

1966

Mujeres engañadas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mujeres engañadas

1961

No artwork available
5.7

Three Black Angels (Spanish: Tres angelitos negros) is a 1960 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring Miguel Aceves Mejía, Yolanda Varela and Pedro Vargas.

Three Black Angels

1960

The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris poster
5.3

Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.

The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris

1966

Rebelde Sin Casa poster
7.6

Tin Tan interfered in a bank robbery, then got arrested when the perp.s escaped. Crooks and police are both after him...

Rebelde Sin Casa

1960

Amorcito corazón poster
5.7

Comical crises in the household of a newlywed couple.

Amorcito corazón

1961

Dos gemelas estupendas poster
5.5

Rosa Blanca is a Spanish singer and dancer hired for a show in Mexico. She travels with her ​​twin sister, Blanca, but goes undercover as a surprise in the show. The twins also use their resemblance to confuse Herman, a young Mexican-Rosa Blanca's love, and also live moments of tension when receiving a death threat.

Dos gemelas estupendas

1968

El gran pillo poster
5.5

A comic movie that involves a guy who sees a kid in his house who escaped from his wealthy grandfather's mansion.

El gran pillo

1960

1950s · 28 titles

Drop the Curtain poster
7.6

Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.

Drop the Curtain

1955

School for Tramps poster
8.0

Alberto Medina is a famous composer whose car breaks down while he is on a trip. While looking for help, he finds the Valverdes' house and is welcomed in by Emilia, the mother of the family, who is known for taking in tramps.

School for Tramps

1955

The Innocent poster
7.1

After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.

The Innocent

1956

El secreto de mi mujer poster
5.6

A couple suffers marital crisis, because they cannot have children. The wife harbors a long kept secret that might doom the marriage.

El secreto de mi mujer

1955

¡Paso a la juventud..! poster
5.4

Champion diver on a Uni swim team trains for the Olympics and contends with his buffoonish room-mate.

¡Paso a la juventud..!

1958

Historia de un abrigo de mink poster
4.6

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

Historia de un abrigo de mink

1955

El que con niños se acuesta... poster
6.8

Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire philanthropist, who helps him but makes him adopt four children from his orphanage.

El que con niños se acuesta...

1959

The King of México poster
6.0

A humble tramp is turned, for a couple of days, into the richest and most famous man in México.

The King of México

1956

Mi mujer necesita marido poster
6.2

Diagnosed with a "Cleopatra complex", a married woman named Cora believes she is a femme fatale and invites three suitors to her vacation home.

Mi mujer necesita marido

1959

3 Lessons of Love poster
6.0

The rigid professor Germán, president of the League of Honor and Modesty, hates statues of naked women, but the spirit of his ancestor Casanova leads him to episodes of debauchery and conquest. Married to the rigid Severa, he becomes a corrupt mayor. Only the moralistic Rosa will be able to free him from these strange influences to improve his life and that of the town.

3 Lessons of Love

1959

The Adventures of Pito Pérez poster
5.9

After a long absence, a man returns to his village and recounts all his adventures with a touch of nostalgia.

The Adventures of Pito Pérez

1957

The Body Snatcher poster
5.9

A detective and his cowboy friend team up to stop a mad scientist who is stealing the bodies of murdered wrestlers, and bringing them back to life while electronically replacing their minds with those of animals to make them stronger and live longer. Posing as a successful masked wrestler, the cowboy quickly attracts the attention of the scientist and his henchmen as their next experimental subject...

The Body Snatcher

1957

The Force of Desire poster
4.1

Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.

The Force of Desire

1955

The Man That Pleases Me poster
5.8

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.

The Man That Pleases Me

1958

New faces poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

New faces

1956

La vida tiene tres días poster
5.7

María dreams of going to the capital to study piano and begins exchanging letters with Alberto, a composer. He takes advantage of the situation by sending his family away so he can deceive María and make her fall in love with him.

La vida tiene tres días

1955

Every Child a Cross to Bear poster
6.7

Sometimes parents make the mistake of loving one child more than the others. Don José places blind trust in his son Pepe, who turns out to be the one committing the most serious faults within the family, while Raymundo is the one who pays for them. Remake of Cuando los hijos se van (1941).

Every Child a Cross to Bear

1957

El hombre del alazán poster
6.2

Professional gambler is getting old and jaded; his friends see him becoming a bad person and try to set him on a better path.

El hombre del alazán

1959

La mafia del crimen poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mafia del crimen

1958

Rapto al sol poster
6.2

An arrogant woman who owns a successful coffee company is abducted by the owner of some islands.

Rapto al sol

1956

The Window Gossip poster
5.6

A quirky peeper with a telescope accidentally discovers serial-killer activity across the courtyard.

The Window Gossip

1956

No artwork available
6.3

Gloria sells dolls in benefit of UNICEF and is interested in putting on an international show. In a hotel in Acapulco the ranchero Javier, the Muslims Mustafa and Ali, the Brazilian Mr. Carioca and the charro José Lorenzo meet to carry out the project. Among the men there will be a series of entanglements to dispute the love of the young woman.

Acapulcan

1959

Maternidad imposible poster
6.7

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, then adopted. Meanwhile, Mama recovers from her injuries, and...

Maternidad imposible

1955

Desnúdate, Lucrecia poster
6.0

Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake.

Desnúdate, Lucrecia

1958

Golden Wedding poster
6.4

On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage

Golden Wedding

1956

Bataclán mexicano poster
5.3

International showgirl engineers a green-card marriage for herself to avoid being deported.

Bataclán mexicano

1956

School for Mothers-in-Law poster
6.2

Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.

School for Mothers-in-Law

1958

Una Movida Chueca poster
5.4

Experimental drug gives the ability to foretell the future.

Una Movida Chueca

1956